Delphi Code Monkey
– Allen is a pretty talented guy, and he has a long history and deep insights into the history of Delphi. I can confirm (from outside the Embarcadero/CodeGear fold) that everything he says is exactly the way it is, even the motivation for .Net being that Microsoft planned to "yank" the Win32 platform out from under us Win32/VCL programmers, and force everybody onto new "managed" .Net runtime APIs, to the point that existing Win32 APIs would be a "penalty box" environment, a sandboxed subworld inside the real windows, the equivalent of the NTVDM, the virtualization layer that kept 16 bit ...